There was 8bit, 16bit, 32bit, and 64bit, but how many bits are we up to now?
>>330937234
DIRTY BIT
64 bit, and we're never ever going to get longer instructions.
64.
I doubt it'll ever change for another 15 years.
We're too set in our ways to ever move away from x86.
Processor architectures are not video games
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I think 256 bits with regular GDDR5, HBM bumps it to 1024 bits.
I have no idea what a "bit" is.
I thought 8, 16, etc... bit meant number of pixels.
8 16 and 32 bit were representative of color depth, and how many colors could be displayed at one time as well as sound channels. anything after 32 as far as visuals and sound quality goes is meaningless until we have monitors that display higher than 256 brightness values per pixel
>>330937234
we got whooping 512-bit GPUs nowadays on PC! :D
>consolikids on suicide watch
stupid pcucks ruining my thread
>>330937932
Well you are correct that you have no idea what a bit is.
>>330937614
Ded
>>330937932
it did
>>330937234
What is the main difference between 32 and 64 bit OSs anyway?
>>330938398
32 bits
>>330937932
16 pixels anon?
8 pixels?
That would literally just be 8 huge blocks on your tv.
Are you retarded
>>330938398
32 bit can only use up to 3gb of ram, 64 I'm not sure how much it can go up to, but it's more than 128gb.
>>330938398
32-bit OS can't use 64-bit programs, and 32-bit applications can only utilize up to 3GB of RAM.
>>330938602What's a pixel?
>>330938605
>64 I'm not sure how much it can go up to, but it's more than 128gb.
Theoretically it goes up 2^64 bytes, or 16 Exabytes. So yeah, technically there's no limit.
>>330937234
I believe we're still at 64-bit architecture.
There's really no reason to go higher in bits, it's just processing speed of those particular bits that matters now.
>>330938792
That's actually good to know.
>tfw we'll hit 16 exabytes in our lifetime
>>330937614
9/10
>>330939040
dunno if that's going to happen. The growth of PC processing power and memory sizes has started to decrease in the past few years, and unless we get some brand new fad to boost the growth again, bit like how games did push home PC specs forward quite a bit in 90s, we might be dealing with mere couple hundred GB of RAM by the end of this century. Especially since cloud-computing's becoming more and more common nowadays; even some upcoming Xbone games use network connection to link up all the available consoles and their servers in the world to provide some advanced physics-driven destruction calculations in the games.
